Packaging material



Dem 1959 A. P. KLASING EIAL 2,916,053

PACKAGING MATERIAL Original Filed May 14, l954F G l 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTORS ARTHUR H KLASING WILLIAM J. RICE ATTORNEY Dec. 8, 1959 Original Filed May 14, 1954 A. P. KLASING s-rm. 2,916,053

PACKAGING MATERIAL 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG.- 4

INVENTOR ARTHUR P. KLASING WILLIAM J. RICE fMMW ATTO RN EY PACKAGING MATERIAL Arthur P. Klasing, Webster Groves, and William J. Rice, University City, Mo., assignors to Central States Paper & Bag Co., St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Original application May 14, 1954, Serial No. 429,853.

, Divided and this application January '12, 1956, Serial 1 Claim. cries-49 Serial No. 429,853, filed May 14, 1954, now Patent No.

. It is the primary object of the present invention to i provide means for fabricating thermoplastic synthetic resin films, such as polyethylene and the like, into packaging materials, such as bag-forming tubing and bags made from such tubing.

It is another object of the present invention to provide means and methods for manufacturing packaging materials of the type stated from thermoplastic synthetic resin films in a highly economical, continuous, efficient and rapid manner.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a packaging device in the nature of a bag which is uniquely adapted for enclosing meat, poultry, or any other articles of merchandise suitable for display and sale in retail shops, department stores, supermarkets, and the like.

' With the above and other objects in view, our invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings (two sheets)- Figure l is a schematic view of machinery embodying the present invention and being adapted for making bagforming tubing from thermoplastic synthetic resin films;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary sectional view taken along line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a schematic view of machinery embodying the present invention and being adapted for making bags out of the bag-forming tubing;

Figure 4 is a plan view of a bag constructed in accordance with and embodying the present invention;

Figure 5 is a transverse sectional view taken along line 5-5 of Figure 4; and I Figure 6 is a fragmentary sectional view taken along line 6-6 of Figure 4.

Referring now in more detail and by reference characters to the drawings, which illustrate a preferred embodiment of thepresent invention, A designates a tubeforming machine which comprises two supply-shafts 1, 2, for respectively supporting rolls 3, 4, of thermoplastic synthetic resin films, such as polyethylene or the like, and from which two separate continuous webs w, w, of film may be withdrawn, the webs w, w, preferably, though not necessarily, being of equal width and arranged in marginal registration. Operatively mounted in spaced parallel relation to the supply-shafts 1, 2, are tensioning rolls 5, 6, around which the webs w, w, are respectively trained and brought into facewise marginally registered abutment for passage between a first pair of co-operating feed rolls 7, 8, which are also distfii re t 0 "ice posed in parallel relation to the shafts 1, 2. Similarly mounted in spaced parallel relation to the feed rolls 7, 8, and forwardly therefrom along the path of travel of the combined webs w, w, is a large diameter platen-roll 9 and a second pair of feed rolls 10, 11. Operatively mounted beyond the second pair vof feed rolls 10, 11, are separate rewind-shafts 12, 13. The bearings for the shafts 1, 2, 12, 13, the adjustable trunnions for the tensioning rolls 5, 6, the gear-drive for the feed rolls 7, 8, 10, 11, and the platen-roll 9 have not been shown inasmuch as such elements are conventional and well understood in connection with winding and reeling machinery. It is merely sufficient for present purposes to note that the driving and web-tensioning mechanism should co-act and co-operate to keep both webs w, w', taut without breaking and moving together at identical lineal speed so as to pass around the platen-roll 9 in snug unwrinkled contact against the surface thereof.

Rigidly mounted in outwardly spaced parallel relation to the platen-roll 9 is a dovetail bar 14 for supporting a plurality of electrically or electronic heated sealers-15, each including a base-block 16 having a dovetail slot 17 for sliding engagement with the bar 14 and being provided with a set-screw 18 for locking engagement with the bar 14, so that the sealer 15 can be slid along the bar 14 to any desired position of adjustment to accommodate the width of the webs w, w', and then tightly secured in such adjusted position. Secured to the baseblock 16 by means of adjusting screws 19, 19', is a sealerbar 20 provided at its outer end with a wedge-shaped sealer-head 21 internally equipped with a conventional resistance-type electric heating element 22 and having a narrow somewhat rounded sealing edge 23. The sealerbars 20 may be adjusted inwardly or outwardly with respect to the base-blocks 16 by appropriate setting of the screws 19, 19, so that the outer sealers 15 will press the registering edges of the webs w, w, down with sufficient pressure and temperature to fuse them together. The central sealer 15 is adjusted so as to be practically in contact with the surface of the platen-roll 9 and slit and seal the webs w, w, at the same time, as shownl in Figure 2, thereby forming two continuous webs of edge-sealed fiat tubing t, which are separately rolled up on the rewind-shafts 12, 13, respectively. It will, of course, be understood that by using more than one intermediate sealer 15, it is possible to form more than two webs of tubing.

Bags can be formed from the rolls of tubing t by placing one of such rolls upon an unwind shaft 24 and feeding the tubing t preferably in a horizontal direction between intermittently driven,feed rolls 25, 26, and beneath a vertically reciprocating cutting-blade or knife 27 adapted to cut the tubing 2 into sections of desired length. Operatively mounted along the path of travel of the tubing t forwardly with respect to the knife 27 is a flat platen 28 and a vertically reciprocating electrically heated die-plate 29 adapted to sever and seal the sections along an arcuate line in the provision of a bottom seam s and thereby forming the section into a completed bag B. Interposed between the flat platen 28 and the knife 27 is an accelerating transfer-belt 30 for shifting each cut section forwardly onto the platen 28 beneath the dieplate 29. The driving mechanism for the rolls 25, 26, the knife 27, the die-plate 29 and the transfer-belt 30 is entirely conventional and is, therefore, not shown, but it is sufiicient for purposes to point out that the entire mechanism operates intermittently, so that successive lengths of tubing are fed beneath the knife 27 and during the dwell in the feeding movement the knife 27 is shifted downwardly to sever the tubing and thus cut oil? a bagforming section. Thereupon, the cut-off section is fed by the transfer-belt 30 beneath the die-plate 29 and during the dwell in this feeding movement the die-plate 29 is shifted downwardly to complete the bag B. The crescent-shaped strip of excess material 0, of course, may

bediscarded as scrap. By suitable variation in the shape oftherule on the die-plate, and theposition thereof in relation to the opposite ends of the cut-off sections, itis possible to form two bags at once.

The completed bag B thus comprises two overlying identically shaped panels 31, 32, secured together along their longitudinal margins and across the bottom by a continuous and uninterrupted heat-sealed seam 33, which consists in part of the seam s formed by the die-plate 29 and in part by the marginal sealsformed bythe sealem 15.

By employing a transparent film for the web w and an opaque preferably white film for the web w, the bottom or back panel 32 of the bag B, when completed,

will be opaque and afford an excellent display package disposed-therein. When suitably filled, the bag B can be heat-sealed, stapled shut, or otherwise conventionally closed.

It should be understood that changes and modifications in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the packaging materials and means and methods of making the same may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

As an article of manufacture, a tube open at both ends and consisting of two flat overlying sheets of thermoplastic material of equal Width having their longitudinal margins in registration and secured together along said margins by narrow seams in which the edges of the overlying sheets are fused together in a direction which is substantially transverse with respect to the plane of the flat surfaces of the sheets.

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